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boring. [ jack ] after lauren broke up with me, i went to the citi private pass page and decided to be...not boring. that's how i met marilyn... giada... really good. yes! [ jack ] ...and alicia. ♪ this girl is on fire [ male announcer ] use any citi® card to get the benefits of private pass. more concerts. more events. more experiences. [ jack ] hey, who's boring now? [ male announcer ] get more access with a citi card. [ crowd cheering, mouse clicks ] >>> it should come as no surprise that the first major on-air fact check in these debates found mitt romney's pants to be on fire because for the second time in as many months, romney missed his 3 a.m. call on libya. >> i want to make sure we get that for the record because it took the president 14 days before he called the attack in benghazi an act of terror. >> get the transcript. >> he did, in fact, sir. so, let me call it an act of terror -- >> can you say that a little louder, candy? >> conservatives in between hosing down their nominee have falsely accused the moderator of shedder her impatrtiality to sae the president but that
boring. [ jack ] after lauren broke up with me, i went to the citi private pass page and decided to be...not boring. that's how i met marilyn... giada... really good. yes! [ jack ] ...and alicia. ♪ this girl is on fire [ male announcer ] use any citi® card to get the benefits of private pass. more concerts. more events. more experiences. [ jack ] hey, who's boring now? [ male announcer ] get more access with a citi card. [ crowd cheering, mouse clicks ] >>> it should come as no...
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and down in sun city, florida, it was vice president joe biden who hit the same theme with a new twist on an old favorite. riffing on the president's description of romney's sketchy deal. >> but i would respectfully suggest they're not sketchy, they're etch-a-sketchy. they're shaking that sucker. i tell you what, dial in a new sketch. >> yes, indeed, they are desperately trying to dial in a new sketch, one that will lay out a path to the white house which is looking rather more challenging with two new nbc polls that reinforce the president's firewall in the midwest. in wisconsin obama leads romney by six points among likely voters, 51% to 45%. in iowa the president is up by eight points, 51% to 3%. bo both of them nearly identical to last month. here is an electoral challenge. iowa plus wisconsin plus ohio equals four more years for president obama. let's get right to our panel. in washington professor michael eric dyson, an msnbc political analyst, dana bill mamilbank a columnist for "the washington post," and ari melber, i'm suffering a case of romnesia, he's a msnbc political whate
and down in sun city, florida, it was vice president joe biden who hit the same theme with a new twist on an old favorite. riffing on the president's description of romney's sketchy deal. >> but i would respectfully suggest they're not sketchy, they're etch-a-sketchy. they're shaking that sucker. i tell you what, dial in a new sketch. >> yes, indeed, they are desperately trying to dial in a new sketch, one that will lay out a path to the white house which is looking rather more...
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ryan tells the journalist that to get rid of violent crime in the inner cities, you have to increase opportunities. and then this happens. >> and you can do all that by cutting taxes, with a big tax cut. >> those are your words, not mine. >> thank you very much, sir. >> yeah. that was kind of strange. trying to stuff words in people's mouths? >> i don't know if it's strange. >> it sounds like you're trying to answer the question for me. that's a little odd. >> here with us now, ari melber a correspondent for the nation and jonathan alter, an msnbc political analyst. ari, you said earlier and i heard you, that you didn't believe that mr. ryan was acting out of kilter there but was being fairly reasonable with a rather jumped up local reporter. but isn't it the case that every ailment in society according to paul ryan is solved by tax cuts? everything from leprosy to the deficit? >> i think that's his you view. >> so that was a fair interaction. >> one of the problems we have is sort of the jumpiness. andrew sullivan finds a poll, freaks out, and you kind of got to tell him to fall bac
ryan tells the journalist that to get rid of violent crime in the inner cities, you have to increase opportunities. and then this happens. >> and you can do all that by cutting taxes, with a big tax cut. >> those are your words, not mine. >> thank you very much, sir. >> yeah. that was kind of strange. trying to stuff words in people's mouths? >> i don't know if it's strange. >> it sounds like you're trying to answer the question for me. that's a little odd....
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for a nation one described as a city that shines on
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since then in that 24 hours the city has been crippled. we're talking about $20 billion in infrastructure damage, $10 billion to $30 billion in lost business reeceipts. if those numbers are right by some estimates, that would be the worst disaster in u.s. history. we're also looking at a subway system, the best in the world some say, that currently is not working, not functional, and won't be for several days. it could be more than that. electricity south of 39th street gone for the most part. overnight and now today in some parts of where i'm standing right now, battery park on the southern tip of manhattan, they don't even have cell service, they don't have broadband service here and there. they've just taken down a tree that was felled not too long ago. that took about 45 minutes. up to my right there's a residential tower, just to give you a sense of how the financial center of the united states is not necessarily at its best, crippled at the moment, that tower normally would be lit up with lights. they're not right now. martin, it is
since then in that 24 hours the city has been crippled. we're talking about $20 billion in infrastructure damage, $10 billion to $30 billion in lost business reeceipts. if those numbers are right by some estimates, that would be the worst disaster in u.s. history. we're also looking at a subway system, the best in the world some say, that currently is not working, not functional, and won't be for several days. it could be more than that. electricity south of 39th street gone for the most part....
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. >> the best thing to help prevent violent crime in inner cities is to bring opportunity in inner cities, help people get out of poverty, teach people good discipline, good character. >> the republican's content breathtaking. >> wow. >> ryan suggests those lack discipline and character. this do they not realize four-fifths of the actual population now lives in an urban area? >> they probably don't realize that. judging from the limited amount of time their campaign has actually spent in urban areas, you can tell how much they value it. the problem with mr. ryan's comments here is he is ascribing inherent characteristics to being poor or living in the inner city. that's troubling and problematic. it plays to a lot of stereotypes and racism which still exists which is why we still need affirmative action policies. not just to level the playing field, but as maria is talking about, the leaders of cap industries, leaders in defense and leaders at universities are very much invested in diversity as a way to practice innovation, as a way to practice progress and to make us not just culturally
. >> the best thing to help prevent violent crime in inner cities is to bring opportunity in inner cities, help people get out of poverty, teach people good discipline, good character. >> the republican's content breathtaking. >> wow. >> ryan suggests those lack discipline and character. this do they not realize four-fifths of the actual population now lives in an urban area? >> they probably don't realize that. judging from the limited amount of time their...
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they're not living in some inner city apartment the way he likes to talk. that's a horrible plan for the american people. why should 40 million people have to sit in the emergency room? is that your plan? my view of tonight in scoring it, by the way, how many times do we hear the phrase vouchers? how many times do we hear the phrase emergency rooms and personhood and bankruptcy and 47%? >> and 47%. >> and bankruptcy. the president of the united states never mentioned our great auto industry and how he rescued it, never mentioned it. never mentioned the fact that he fought for and got a law passed saying that women get the same pay as men. they didn't used to. these are great accomplishments. they're not changing the world but for a lot of people they changed their worlds. why didn't he bring this stuff up? he's waiting for jim lehrer to bring it up? waiting for him to bring up these topics? he wasn't going to do it. certainly romney -- i have to remind you, mr. frez, i said the 47% of the american people don't count. i was going to remind you, mr. president
they're not living in some inner city apartment the way he likes to talk. that's a horrible plan for the american people. why should 40 million people have to sit in the emergency room? is that your plan? my view of tonight in scoring it, by the way, how many times do we hear the phrase vouchers? how many times do we hear the phrase emergency rooms and personhood and bankruptcy and 47%? >> and 47%. >> and bankruptcy. the president of the united states never mentioned our great auto...
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john harwood, cnbc chief white house correspondent, and holding it down in new york city, msnbc political analyst karen finney. john, are you there in the spin room. as you know, the spinning begins before either candidate has spoken. we've seen both parties attempt to deflate expectations. but isn't the biggest challenge for mitt romney, not what he plans to say tonight, but how he explains what he's already said, in particular, his derision for 47% of the people in this country? >> reporter: certainly, martin, he's going to have to address that and try to diffuse that issue. look, this is an incredibly important event in the campaign. tens of millions of people will watch these two guys standing side by side. mitt romney is behind, but behind by three points. he could still win this race. he's got to figure out a way to both hurt obama, help himself, make credible arguments his economic plan will make the lives of 100% of americans better, and try to establish some connection with the american people he hasn't been able to do on far. it's a tall order. it's not impossible. >> well, than
john harwood, cnbc chief white house correspondent, and holding it down in new york city, msnbc political analyst karen finney. john, are you there in the spin room. as you know, the spinning begins before either candidate has spoken. we've seen both parties attempt to deflate expectations. but isn't the biggest challenge for mitt romney, not what he plans to say tonight, but how he explains what he's already said, in particular, his derision for 47% of the people in this country? >>...
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you govern a large urban city. what's wrong with the emergency room for those without insurance as mitt romney says? i mean, it seems to be working fine. >> well, aside from being callous and cold, it's the most expensive way to achieve health care. we ought to be making sure people are healthy so they don't have to go to the emergency room. emergency room costs are between two to three times more expensive than a typical method, and they would cause the health care budget in the united states to explode. but he doesn't really care about that because he plans on block granting health care expenses to the states anyway. it will be up to states to deal with that problem because if he and paul ryan have their way, they will be block granting more and more health care services to the states. >> indeed. let me get your take, sir, on paul ryan's visit to a soup kitchen in ohio on monday. he was there for the purpose of a photo-op. i'm not sure ryan picked up on the irony of it because if he and romney are elected, soup k
you govern a large urban city. what's wrong with the emergency room for those without insurance as mitt romney says? i mean, it seems to be working fine. >> well, aside from being callous and cold, it's the most expensive way to achieve health care. we ought to be making sure people are healthy so they don't have to go to the emergency room. emergency room costs are between two to three times more expensive than a typical method, and they would cause the health care budget in the united...
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jersey city is getting power, we believe, today. but there are still big chunks of the community, including this community right here, that don't have power. and, so, it's hard enough, cleaning up debris and dealing with boats that have been upended and, you know, roads that are blocked, when people don't have power, though, obviously, they're disabled in allways and it's hard to get back to normal. so yesterday i had a chance to speak to the ceos of the utilities from all across the country, and a lot of the states that were spared, that were not hard hit or some states as faraway as california, they have pledged to start getting equipment, crews, et cetera, here into new jersey and new york and connecticut as quickly as possible. and one of the things that we've been able to do, just to give you a sense of how this is an all-hands-on-deck approach, we're able to get c-17s and c-130s, military transport planes, potentially, to move assets, personnel, to speed up the process of getting power up and running as soon as possible. our f
jersey city is getting power, we believe, today. but there are still big chunks of the community, including this community right here, that don't have power. and, so, it's hard enough, cleaning up debris and dealing with boats that have been upended and, you know, roads that are blocked, when people don't have power, though, obviously, they're disabled in allways and it's hard to get back to normal. so yesterday i had a chance to speak to the ceos of the utilities from all across the country,...
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. >> the american dream is very simply the fact that a young man born in inner city of atlanta, georgia, 1961, now lives here. that's the american dream. there's no such thing as a somali dream, a chinese dream, there's one dream, the american dream and that's why people came to these shores. >> okay. before you start laughing, why does mr. west feel that he has to deride every single other nation? he almost seems to have taken mitt romney's comment about the 47% and extended it to the whole planet, that nobody can have any dreams apart from this country. >> i her schoolhouse rock there was one of the dings they had, the great american melting pot and showed all these different people jumping into the pot and that became america. >> yes. >> clearly alan west has never seen schoolhouse rock and that's a problem for him and the reason that's a problem is he seems to have a mentality that it's only about america. it is only about america that's made up of somalis that have come here and mexicans that have come here and irish people that have come here and the list is endless. what makes us
. >> the american dream is very simply the fact that a young man born in inner city of atlanta, georgia, 1961, now lives here. that's the american dream. there's no such thing as a somali dream, a chinese dream, there's one dream, the american dream and that's why people came to these shores. >> okay. before you start laughing, why does mr. west feel that he has to deride every single other nation? he almost seems to have taken mitt romney's comment about the 47% and extended it to...
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mitt romney is out in the mile high city carb loading at chipotle today. >> how are you doing? >> are you ready for tomorrow? >> hi there. getting there. how are you? >> getting there. just giving him another six years. indeed, you know what mitt romney's been working hard, maybe fighting for a little air when he goes on a nostalgic riff. in this case the rocky mountains are just the right height. >> when avis boy my mom and dad used to read to me from a book called "men to match my mountains." perhaps we should change the title to "men and women to match my mountains" because right here men and women have matched the mountains of colorado. >> he's really working on the zingers. we see what you did there, mitt, adding women into the mix. nice. anything to do with the president's 18-point lead with women putting him four points above romney nationwide? no, i'm sure not. by the way, the same poll shows voters expect 54% to 28% that the president will win the dae bates. the president doesn't seem too worried. delivering pizza to a nevada campaign headquarters and calling volunteer
mitt romney is out in the mile high city carb loading at chipotle today. >> how are you doing? >> are you ready for tomorrow? >> hi there. getting there. how are you? >> getting there. just giving him another six years. indeed, you know what mitt romney's been working hard, maybe fighting for a little air when he goes on a nostalgic riff. in this case the rocky mountains are just the right height. >> when avis boy my mom and dad used to read to me from a book...
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take the city of toledo, for instance. it would be interesting for people to listen to the mayor of toledo talk about how many thousands of jobs have been created in toledo through chinese/american joint partnerships, joint investments in the toledo area. so what romney is doing here is just the worst kind of pandering saying he would declare them a manipulator. it's ridiculous. the value of the yuan has actually been declining anyway down about 15%. but what it points to is that he's just trying to get the votes of people who don't like china for some reason. he's parading as this pro-business executive who understands the business world. he understands it perfectly well that that is not the way you conduct u.s./chinese relations, to attack them on the first day of his presidency. >> but is it pandering? >> total pander. >> or sticking up for what he believes. >> he doesn't believe that for a nano second, and none of his friends believe it. not a single one of his friends in his crowd at bain capital, outside of bain capi
take the city of toledo, for instance. it would be interesting for people to listen to the mayor of toledo talk about how many thousands of jobs have been created in toledo through chinese/american joint partnerships, joint investments in the toledo area. so what romney is doing here is just the worst kind of pandering saying he would declare them a manipulator. it's ridiculous. the value of the yuan has actually been declining anyway down about 15%. but what it points to is that he's just...